COM Argentina
Vision & Mission
Mission, problem statement, and approach of COM Argentina.
# Mission Statement
"COM exists to make every living thing identifiable by anyone, anywhere — even without cell signal, even without formal training, even in the languages that field guides forgot."
COM is a bridge between the naturalist's eye and the conservationist's database, built in the open so the data it generates belongs to the commons.
# The Problem
Tool fragmentation
PlantNet handles plants, Merlin handles birds, iNaturalist handles community curation — but no single platform unifies photo, audio, video, and ecological evidence into one workflow. Field workers juggle 3-4 apps per outing.
Training data bias
Most AI models are trained on North American and European specimens. Megadiverse Neotropical regions are critically underrepresented, leading to poor accuracy where it matters most.
# Our Approach
Multi-modal ID — One UI for photo, audio, video, and ecological evidence
AI ensemble — Gemini Flash for best-in-class accuracy across taxa
Offline-first — Full functionality via cached ONNX models and IndexedDB, sync when signal returns
Expert curation — Community validation with taxonomic badges, dispute resolution, and research-grade consensus
Conservation pipeline — We share biodiversity data with scientific and conservation platforms in Argentina and worldwide.